The Portland daily press., 1887-06-24
FOOLISH PERFORMANCE,
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR,

1t is said that Messrs. Nicolay and Hay re-
ceived $4,000 from the Century for their
Life of Abraham Lincoln"
1.-The Queens weather has become a
proyerb in England so constantly has the
sun shone on her public appearances for the
past fifty years.
A memorial service in honor of the late
Hon. Charles Francis Adams will be held
July 4th in the Unitarian church, Quincy, at
1890 a. m. The address will be delivered by
DIR. William Everett
In Atlanta the memory of Sherman's
march to the sea is embalmed in local slang
The Chief of Police of that city, who recent
ly burned some captured gambling nipple
ments was said to have 'ShermaniZed' them
The Queen of Holland presented a remark
able gift to the king on his SEVENTEEN birth
day. The ladies in waiting carried in an
immense bouquet, which they placed before
his majesty. The king was greatly surprised
when suddenly. the top of the bouquet
opened and the head of his infant daughter
peeped out of the flowers.
Hon. Allen G. Thurman, accompanied by
Hon. Charles Levi Woodbury. and ex-Mayor
Prince, were the guests recently of Hon.
Robert c. Winthrop at his residence in
Brookline. Mr.. Winthrop and Mr.. Thur
man were members of the Twenty-ninth
Congress. which held its first session Dec. /,
1915 Julius Rockwell of Massachusetts,
Jefferson Davis, 5. A. Douglas, John Quincy
Adams, Thomas II. Benton, Levi Woodbury.
were also members.
Carl Schurz, in his life of Henry Clay, re-
fers to the circumstance that when ''the mill
boy of the slashes" took his seat in the Sen
ate Of the United States, Dec. %. 1906. he
was constitutionally ineligible. At that date
he lacked three months and seventeen DAYS
OF the, constitutional age of thirty years
prescribed by the constitution. But the
question was not raised when he was sworn,
as it did not occur to any senator that the
man who stood before them was not old
enough for the place.
company has been organized in Philadel
phia to supsrcede the locomotive with pneu-
matte motor. The device consists of a tube
Of medium diameter, In which there is a
piston or plunger, with rod that connects
with the cars. Resistance is removed from
one end of the piston by means of vacuum
pumped by stationary engines pOsiti0ned at
proper distances along the line of the road.
When vacuum is produced, or resistance is
removed, the force Of the air at the other
end drives the piston, which is expected to
carry the car with a velocity and regularity
of motion not attained by any other motor.
A despatch from Ottawa says, IAN order
in council has been passed declaring that I'M
authorized and inappropriate names have
been given to natural features in the North
west, and as it is fit and proper that names
OF persons more intimately connected with
the inception and exection of the Canadian
national highway should be perpetuated in
TINS manner. the names of five of the Rocky
Mountains are changed as follows: Bounda-
ry Peak to Pope's Peak, after the minister
OF railways; Mt. Hermit to Mt Upper, af-
ter the minister of finance; Mt. Carroll to
Mt Macdonald, after the premier; Mt. Cum
premier, and an unnamed mountain to be
called Mt. Macpherson.